The Putnam Middle School PTA -- especially President Rotonda Perry -- has had it with the discipline problems at the school and with what she calls a "nonchalant" principal who doesn't seem to care about the issues.

She and rest of the PTA have called a meeting with city leaders, Birmingham Board of Education members and local clergy to discuss a laundry list of problems at the school, including low morale among teachers, gang problems and fighting among students, unsanitary conditions in the bathrooms and classrooms and low test scores.

Perry spent most of the day today speaking with Mayor Larry Langford's office, local churches and educators asking them for help and telling them about the meeting. See the letter she is distributing with the list of problems at the school here.

The meeting will be held Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at McElwain Baptist Church, 4445 Montevallo Road.